Upcoming Opportunities
Mission Trip to Belarus
June 24 - July 9. ESL volunteers needed - tell Russian students about Jesus! Approximate cost is $2,400.00 Call: Ann & Leon Chechowich - 761-4110.
Student Mission Camp
July18-23. For students who have completed grades 8-12
Mission Reports
"Operation Inasmuch" Report
Project leader, Delton Haynes, says, 'I believe I am safe in saying that operation Inasmuch transformed Fist Baptist Church of Bradenton. I have never seen so many people so excited."
Here's what 212 volunteers accomplished:
- Donated seventeen units of blood
- Checked and change the oil for 19 single moms/widows
- Cared for volunteer's small children
- Prepared and delivered 200 comfort/hygiene bags to nursing homes, seafarers, etc.
- Collected 3,600 lbs of food for Meals on Wheels and St. Joseph's Food Pantry.
- Spruced up an old Habitat House
- Visited all First Baptist homebound members
- Prepared lunch and delivered it to all the volunteers
- Cleaned up the grounds and trimmed the trees at Manatee Religious Services
- Painted the exterior of north River Care Pregnancy Center
- Painted the interior of the child care center operated for underprivileged families
- Made and delivered 70 lap robes to local nursing homes
- Washed cars (for free!) and received $229 in donations for Haiti Earthquake Relief
- Recorded all of this in photographs
Comments overheard: "This church has never done anything like this before." "This event has set this church on a new course." "When are we going to do this again?"
Community Outreach and Neighborhood Mission Project
"Sharing the Love of Christ in a Tangible Way"
Students and adults ministered to people in the church neighborhood who needed help maintaing their yards and their homes. Visit our photo gallery to see pictures of this mission work!
